Hi folks, Just a quick note. A very nice friend named Stan sent me these corrections. He put the corrections in CAPS so we could tell the difference. Thought you might like to have these also. My thanks to Stan---because he knew I didn't know the difference and because he cared enough to keep my ignorance at bay!<LOLOL> Jean Land Measures: 1. length: one mile equals 5280 feet, eighty chains, 320 rods, or 1760 yards. One rod equals 5.50 years, 16.5 feet or 25 links ONE ROD EQUALS 5.50 YARDS (this is obviously just a typo). 2. Area: one square mile equals 640 acres or 102,400 square rods. One acre equals 4840 square yards or 43,500 square feet. One square rod equals 30.25 square yards, or .006 of a square acre. ONE ACRE EQUALS 43560 SQUARE FEET -------------------------------- End of TNHUMPHR-D Digest V00 Issue #84 ************************************** From root@lists6.rootsweb.com Tue Aug 1 18:59:54 2000 Return-Path: <root@lists6.rootsweb.com> Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by listsearches.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id e721xsw13875 for <indexer@listsearches.rootsweb.com>; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:59:54 -0700 Received: (from root@localhost) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e721xtp19121 for indexer@listsearches.rootsweb.com; Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:59:55 -0700 Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 18:59:55 -0700 Message-Id: <200008020159.e721xtp19121@lists6.rootsweb.com> From: TNHUMPHR-D-request@rootsweb.com Subject: TNHUMPHR-D Digest V00 #84 X-Loop: TNHUMPHR-D@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <TNHUMPHR-D@rootsweb.com> archive/volume00/84 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: TNHUMPHR-D@rootsweb.com Reply-To: TNHUMPHR-L@rootsweb.com ------------------------------ Content-Type: text/plain TNHUMPHR-D Digest Volume 00 : Issue 84 Today's Topics: #1 Explanations for genealogists... ["theshadow" <theshadow@glade.net>] #2 Corrections ["theshadow" <theshadow@glade.net>] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from TNHUMPHR-D, send a message to TNHUMPHR-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too.